#nmnoir thoughts

[nmnoir]

Something I see a lot in the UTMV fandom nowadays is people talking about canon. "Canon Nightmare wouldn't act like that," "Ink is morally gray," that type of stuff.

The issue is that UTMV started out as a community project and will continue to be a community project. Fanon is incredibly important to certain pillars of the fandom. People are allowed to interpret the characters differently!

It's important to recognize the source material and respect it, but you must also respect different creator's stories. This isn't a community based around one big canon source material. It's based around countless comics, animations, characters, and fanfics that have been shared for years now.

People are not just going to abandon ideas they have loved for years because of the canon of the source AU. I LOVEE seeing canon Nightmare stuff, but I love dadmare or any other interpretation just as much!

In the UTMV fandom, canon and fanon literally have to coexist. It's no fun otherwise.

[nmnoir]

Dreamtale villagers would get the flu and probably assume sad little 5-year-old Nightmare caused it

[nmnoir]

I think it would be funny if Nightmare had weirdly personal beef with any historical figure from the 1500s and onward.

For example,

"Isaac Newton? He didn't know left from right. He makes one theory about an apple, and now he is to be remembered for centuries. I find it ridiculous, personally."

[nmnoir]

In the Ask Error comics, Error seems to be fine with physical touch as long as he initiates it.

I imagine people freeze up whenever he touches them because they’re worried he will jump away if they move, like a cat on their lap.

[nmnoir]

what if fresh is stupid, and the reason he treats Error and Geno as brothers is because he thinks they're ALSO parasites because of how their souls look 😭

Every time he realizes Geno/Error aren't parasites, they do something crazy that makes him return to that idea. For example, Geno coming back as Error, which Fresh would rationalize as "switching hosts."

Or Fresh thinking that Error's multiple tongues belong to a parasite in his skull.

He'd eventually figure it out, of course..

[nmnoir]

Swap/Blueberror taught Error how to knit. Even if Error doesn't want to think about what he did to Swap, his mind probably wanders there whenever he's knitting.

[nmnoir]

It's kind of weird to think that Nightmare skipped straight past his childhood and teen years. If you go off of the fanon assertions of Nightmare, you could do something interesting with that idea.

I mean, literally, Passive was six-years-old at the time of corruption. He jumped from playing with blocks to mass murder in, like, thirty minutes tops. 😭😭😭